Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point was a straightforward one. The shift in emphasis created by quoting me in an altered context nearly reversed my meaning such slanted presentation has characterized. The Crimson's handing of the story throughout. I would seriously doubt whether the Harvard community has had an accurate view of the controversy. Margaret S. McKenna...
Another drastic policy shift being discussed is an increase in room rents designed specifically to encourage more students to move out of the Houses and form a larger, more cohesive off-campus community. This proposal also includes the idea of providing increased financial aid benefits to those students who would agree to move out of University housing...
...simple even spare. Usually it lends itself well to her subjects-- with complicated imaged and twists of thought there is no need for flowery language. But every so often a poem is skimpy. Because Pastan's only point of view is the poet looking out the voice dues not shift. The only source of excitement is what she sees. When the language becomes too terse, a poem might flop unless read very slowly. Fortunately, there are not many of these...
...Maroons had been able to score again quickly, the shift in momentum might have lifted Springfield to victory. But the goal shocked the Crimson as much as it sparked the Maroons, and Harvard netminder Juliet Lamont didn't allow another the rest of the night...
...could die. In any event, I trust a review can do no harm, and I enjoy our chalk talks." A crusading George speaks with Joycean extravagance: " 'We were friends,' he says again of the man he has just mutilated. . .'He was wily. I frisked his shift and groped his robes. I did his duds like a dowser. . .And it came to me he must have swallowed it. See,' Mills says, and he raises his arms still higher, bringing his palms together in which [his victim's] bowels slosh, collision and shift like so much damp...